Chuck Todd of NBC News joined American University students and School of Communication Professor Jane Hall for a recent American Forum on young people and issues in the 2012 presidential election. The discussion was filmed in the American University's School of Communication Media Production Center as a pilot for NBC4. The program will air on NBC Non-Stop, the digital channel from NBC4, from 12-1 p.m. on Saturday 10/13, and from 8 to 9 p.m., on Sunday, 10/14 for viewers in Maryland, VA and DC , potentially reaching 1.6 million TV viewers as potential audience. Channels are: Digital 4.2, Comcast 208, Cox 803, Verizon 460, and RCN (varies).

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David Gregory and Jose Antonio Vargas join Jane Hall for the American Forum.

The American Forum is an interactive multimedia TV and online program with a live town-hall audience. The program engages with young people about issues they care about in politics, media and culture. It is produced by American University’s School of Communication.

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Bond has been a social activist and a civil-rights leader since he was a college student in the South in the 1960s. Bond studied with King; and he was a founder of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee, which played a major role in civil-rights marches, Freedom Rides and voter-registration drives in the 1960s.

He is also chairman emeritus of the NAACP and an author, poet and professor.

Bond engaged with American University students and Hall about his own work as a young civil rights leader, women in the civil rights movement and what young people know - and don't know - about the legacy of King and civil rights. He also challenged the students to become involved in the great social issues of their time.

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